RESPONSES TO STATEHOOD: RESOURCES LIBRARY

The following recommended resources support topics addressed in stories told by Dakota and Ojibwe people, in the Responses to Statehood pages on this web site. Additional resources will be added to this list and can also be found in our resource database.

BIBLIOGRAPHY | View PDF |

In a Good Way: American Indian Studies in the Classroom, Gregory Gagnon, Ph.D, for the Minnesota Humanities Center, Summer 2006 | View article |

BOARDING SCHOOLS RESOURCES

Board schools bibliography, Minnesota Humanities Center | View PDF |
Soul Wound: The Legacy of Native American Schools, by Andrea Smith, Amnesty International | View article |
Photographs from Indian boarding schools | View |
Online exhibits of former boarding schools:
- Carlisle Indian School, PA | View |
- Sherman Indian High School, Riverside, CA | View |
- Ft. Lewis Boarding School, CO | View |
CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: Boarding school lesson plan for Grades 6-8, Library of Congress | View activity |

CREATION STORY RESOURCES

Bdote Memory Map (beta version). Dakota people maintain stories that include origins here, long sojourns elsewhere and an ancient return to this, the homeland. The Bdote Memory Map is a beginning resource for giving Minnesotans a deeper understanding of where we live. It is not a complete history nor a complete picture of the area and its meaning to Dakota people. | View |
Cloudy Waters Audio – Dakota Reflections on the River | VIew |

ETHNOCIDE RESOURCES

Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples House of Representatives Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, Feb. 13, 2008 | View speech |
Indigenous tribes celebrate victory in fight for rights lost by breaches of 1840 treaty with Britain (an apology to the maori), The Independent, New Zealand, June 26, 2008 | View article |
Kill the Indian, Save the Man, speech by Richard Pratt, founder of the Carlisle Boarding School, to the Nineteenth Annual Conference of Charities and Correction at Denver in 1892 | View speech |

FORT SNELLING RESOURCES

Campaign to Take Down the Fort web site | View |

LAND RESOURCES

Camp Coldwater web site | View |
Sacred Site and Traditional Cultural Property Analysis, Bureau of Mines Twin Cities Research Center, Main Campus, Hennepin County, MN, Oct. 4, 2006 | View article |
National Park Service to Dakota People: "Drop Dead," Bruce White, Sept. 13, 2006
| View article |
Dakota Indians retrace Minnesota's trail of tears, Nick Coleman, Star Tribune, Nov. 12, 2004 | View article |
History of the Minnehaha Creek Watershed, Rich and Susan Cairn, For the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District 2003 | View article |

LANGUAGES AND CULTURES RESOURCES

Teaching Indigenous Languages: Four Successful Indigenous Language Programs, by Dawn B. Stiles. Compares Cree, Hualapai, Maori, and Hawaiian indigenous language programs and describes common components and problems of implementation. | View article |

TREATIES RESOURCES

Full text transcriptions of various treaties between the government and Minnesota tribes
| View |
CLASSROOM ACTIVITY: American Indian Treaties in the Minnesota Territory, a teacher-developed activity for Grades 7-8 | View activity |

VALUE ASSUMPTIONS RESOURCES

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (United Nations Genocide Convention), Geneva, Switzerland | View articles |

This project funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities
and The Saint Paul Foundation.